Arming TV Celebrities Raises Concerns ("Armed & Famous")

[matcom]

DUH! :eyes:

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NEW YORK. Jan 11 (Reuters Life!) - Get some B-list celebrities, give them guns, and put them into a midwest U.S. town as police officers and what do you get? A panning by critics and a town worried about its reputation.

A new U.S. reality TV show on CBS, "Armed & Famous," groups singer La Toya Jackson, wrestling star Trish Stratus, MTV's Jack Osbourne, son of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, "Jackass" actor Jason "Wee Man" Acuna, and actor Erik Estrada, who made his name as a cop on the CHiPs TV series.

The five train for three weeks to become real police officers in Muncie, Indiana, a town of about 70,000 people that is considered a typical middle-America community, a factory town suffering in the wake of plant closures and layoffs.

TV critics have panned the series hatched by Muncie-born TV producer Mike Braverman that starts this week as having little action, interest, or reason.

"Keep moving folks. Not much to see here," concluded New York Daily News critic David Hinckley.

"Maybe they should have called it "Armed & Stupid," wrote New York Post critic Linda Stasi.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070111/od_nm/armed1_dc

[peekaloo]

1. I watched part of this crap last night while awaiting the poo flinging Monkey Revue.

LaToya asking for a tablecloth and fingerbowl at a Roadhouse restaurant was the highlight. :sarcasm:

[Hugin]

5. Ow...

Must've been painful.

[Broken_Hero]

2. interesting...

I got cable back in June...and the one reality show, I'm very interested in watching is...Pro's vs. Joe's season II...I can't believe, I never heard of season I...it looks, like a laugh riot, to me....

This one, looks somewhat interesting, only because it has Ponch....

[benEzra]

3. The gun enthusiasts on a gun board I frequent...

seconded the "Armed and Stupid" assessment. Many of the actors handled the real guns as incompetently as most actors handle fake ones in the movies. Sweeping everybody in the room with the muzzle when turning around, and crap like that.

There are a few actors who know how to handle a gun convincingly, and a bunch who only think they do...

Of course, in the movies, guns don't recoil, magically hit what you're looking at (especially when turned sideways or fired from the hip), and make clicking sounds every time you raise them to eye level...

[Little Wing]

4. people rack the slides so often in movies I'm surprised anyone has

any ammo left to fight

[Left Is Write]

6. B-listers? I might classify them as C-listers...